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I was hoping someone here can help me. I recently purchased the Chesky 'Swing Live' DVD-A. My understanding is that when you pop it into a DVD-A player, it is supposed to (by default) play the hi-rez 4.0 mix. I have a universal player (Pioneer DV-47a). When I pop in the disc, it appears from the display on the player that the disc is playing. However, I get no sound nor can I view the menu on my TV. I'm assuming that can't view the menu because it is playing the DVD-A layer of the disc. But why no sound? I have checked all of the settings on the player and none of them seem to have any effect. It's only when I choose group 3 on the disc that I can get sound and access to the menu.BTW -- My player is hooked up to my receiver via both the digital output and the analog 5.1 outputs. When playing in default mode (group 1 on the disc, I believe) I get no sound through either the digital input on my receiver (I'm guessing I shouldn't be getting sound here since this is supposed to be a hi-rez version) nor through the direct 7.1 channel input (I thought I should be getting sound here).
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
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I have also experienced a problem with the 'Swing Live' DVD-A disk. My Panasonic XP-50 will not play the disk at all. I never get a menu, and the counter will pause at 00:07 for a few seconds, then rapidly increment to 00:12, then lock up solid. I cannot eject the disk or get any response from the player. No sound at all. I have to power cycle the player to eject the disk. Believing I had a defective disk, I called Chesky, and they sent me another disk Priority Mail. This disk wouldn't play either, so there must be some incompatibility between my XP-50 and this particular disk. I have successfully played the disk in two other players without any problems. My XP-50 firmware is version 302.
After reading your post, I tried changing the group when the player first began to read the disk, and after about 20 minutes of trying to outsmart the player, one of the tracks began playing. Cool! I have never used the group button on my remote, so I Google'd it and found a thread that mentioned something about the DVD Video mode, and I recalled that I had fiddled with all the settings, not to mention upgrading the firmware that set it all back to factory defaults. Anyway, once I turned the DVD Video mode on in the DVD setup menu, it worked!! Previously, I couldn't even see the menu, or any video ouptut for that matter. You might want to give it a try. Good luck. Tom
Looks like my last post was premature. I'm still having problems. I can get it to play, but I have to fiddle with the group, audio, and track buttons and get lucky to get it to play. Perhaps this disk is authored slightly differently than most disks and it's incompatible with my XP-50. I guess it's time to upgrade my DVD-A player.
This was the very first DVD-A disk I bought, and I've never been able to play it on my Marantz DV8400. The same album is available on SACD though, so maybe you could get Chesky to swap.
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